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authorPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>2005-09-21 09:55:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-21 10:11:55 -0700
commit7e2cff42cfac27c25202648c5c89f9171e5bc085 (patch)
tree5579fa13b1fc8081201f05d687e6dc795d9d648f
parent7e871b6c8f1f4fda41e51ef86147facecac3be9f (diff)
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[PATCH] mm: add a note about partially hardcoded VM_* flags
Hugh made me note this line for permission checking in mprotect(): if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & 0xf) { after figuring out what's that about, I decided it's nasty enough. Btw Hugh itself didn't like the 0xf. We can safely change it to VM_READ|VM_WRITE|VM_EXEC because we never change VM_SHARED, so no need to check that. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-rw-r--r--include/linux/mm.h1
-rw-r--r--mm/mprotect.c3
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 0d94c94d9d8..097b3a3c693 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ extern unsigned int kobjsize(const void *objp);
#define VM_EXEC 0x00000004
#define VM_SHARED 0x00000008
+/* mprotect() hardcodes VM_MAYREAD >> 4 == VM_READ, and so for r/w/x bits. */
#define VM_MAYREAD 0x00000010 /* limits for mprotect() etc */
#define VM_MAYWRITE 0x00000020
#define VM_MAYEXEC 0x00000040
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index e9fbd013ad9..57577f63b30 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -248,7 +248,8 @@ sys_mprotect(unsigned long start, size_t len, unsigned long prot)
newflags = vm_flags | (vma->vm_flags & ~(VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC));
- if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & 0xf) {
+ /* newflags >> 4 shift VM_MAY% in place of VM_% */
+ if ((newflags & ~(newflags >> 4)) & (VM_READ | VM_WRITE | VM_EXEC)) {
error = -EACCES;
goto out;
}